In the most recent update of Windows 11, Microsoft added a new design of the windows 11 start menu that includes a the pane “Access your mobile devices here”, also called “Phone Link In Start Menu”. While this is a neat feature for users at home, it’s not something you really want in a company environment. And as usual, Microsoft hasn’t provided any policy or setting to easily hide this by default.
Continue reading “Hide the Phone Link In Start Menu in Windows 11”Exclaimer Breaks Email Forwarding
UPDATE 15/09/2025: it looks like they fixed it a couple of weeks ago.
Recently, several colleagues reported that they received blank emails containing only images and a text file named ATT00001.txt. The images were part of the email signature, and the actual message body appeared inside the text attachment.
I soon found out that Exclaimer was causing the issue… sort of.
Continue reading “Exclaimer Breaks Email Forwarding”Hard to find Call Queues and Auto Attendants in Microsoft Teams
I’m currently migrating from our Skype environment to Teams and one of the issues we had was that our internal user could not easily find the Auto Attendant or Call queue of our internal departments. Only when they searched on the virtual operator (Resource Account) full name, did they get the correct results. Fortunately, thanks to some input from my teammates we found a solution that Microsoft didn’t document. 😫
Continue reading “Hard to find Call Queues and Auto Attendants in Microsoft Teams”Updating a rooted Fairphone 4 (February 2022)
A couple of months ago I rooted my Fairphone successfully but now the OTA doesn’t work. Which isn’t a big surprise as the signature is modified by installing Magisk. Fortunately, there is an easy method to fix this. Unfortunately, you will root your device again, but this time I was able to do it without any data loss (yeah! 🥳)
Update 24/04/2022: Works for update FF3T.A.0107
Update 01/06/2022: Successfully updated from A.107 to A.128
Decommissioning old servers
Nothing feels so good as shutting down an old server running an EOS operating system. A couple of years ago I did a project where I needed to migrate a lot of old Windows servers. Every time I decommissioned an old server in that project, I always entered some lyrics as final message. I recently found them back I wanted them. 😊
